Despite decades of research, the roles of climate and humans in driving the dramatic extinctions
of large-bodied mammals during the Late Quaternary period remain contentious. Here …

Glacial refugia were core areas for the survival of temperate species during unfavourable
environmental conditions and were the sources of postglacial recolonizations. Unfortunately, …

Congenital heart disease is common, occurring in 8 of 1000 live births. 1 With the successes
in cardiothoracic surgery over the past 3 decades and the ongoing improvements in the …

Importance Recent epidemiologic and therapeutic advances have transformed understanding
of the role of and therapeutic approach to patent foramen ovale (PFO) in ischemic stroke. …

We present a short synthesis of the Pleistocene distribution dynamics and phylogeographic
recolonization hypotheses for two temperate European mammal species, the red deer (…

In the fossil deposits of the Late Pleistocene (c. 115 000–11 500 years ago), five felid species
are recorded in Europe: the wildcat Felis silvestris, Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx, Iberian lynx …

The wild horse Equus ferus was one of the most frequent species of the Late Pleistocene
large ungulate fauna in Eurasia and played an important role in the subsistence of human …

With the successes in cardiothoracic surgery and pediat-ric cardiology over the past 3
decades, for the first time, adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) outnumber their pediatric …

At the end of the Last Glacial Maximum brown bears Ursus arctos recolonized the glacial
landscape of Central and Northern Europe faster than all other carnivorous mammal species of …

Aim To understand the role and significance of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus,
1758), as a specific indicator in terms of late Quaternary biogeography and to determine the …